Impacts of tariff rates on input source choice: evidence from Indonesia

Negara Siwage Dharma, Dionisius Narjoko and Kazunobu Hayakawa

No 861, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: This study empirically examines how a reduction in input tariffs changes firms’ choices between domestic and foreign inputs. In order to do so, we employed Indonesian manufacturing surveys from 2002 to 2010, and from there, computed the share of imported inputs among total inputs at the firm-pr oduct level. With this dataset, we examined the effect of preferential tariffs for ASEAN countries, that is, ASEAN free trade area (AFTA) tariffs. Our findings can be summarized as follows: First, we found that a reduction in AFTA tariffs in Indonesia encouraged plants to raise their share of foreign inputs. Second , such an effect of AFTA tariffs was observed only for indigenous plants, or those whose primary sales m arket is the domestic market. Third, we found that the more productive plants experience a greate r impact of AFTA tariffs on foreign inputs. In short, the reduction in AFTA tariffs encouraged input realloca tion, at least in some specific firms in Indonesia.

Keywords: Indonesia|Tariffs|Inputs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09
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